Olympia 2022
Tested positive: combiners Frenzel and Weber have to be in quarantine for the time being
Such bad luck: Eric Frenzel (l) and Terence Weber tested positive for the corona virus.
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Two other German Olympic athletes tested positive at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Nordic combined athletes Eric Frenzel and Terence Weber are therefore going into quarantine for the time being.
The Nordic combined athletes Eric Frenzel and Terence Weber initially have to go into corona quarantine at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. On the other hand, follow-up tests on four other German athletes from the ice hockey team and the skeleton selection who initially tested positive gave negative results, as the German Olympic Sports Confederation announced on Friday.
The infections in the three-time Olympic champion Frenzel and his teammate Weber were found when they entered Beijing on Thursday. Both were separated by the combined team. The DOSB announced that there were no other cases of contact.
Figure skater Nolan Seegert has been the first German corona case among the athletes in Beijing in the quarantine hotel since Wednesday. With a delay, his pair skating partner Minerva Hase was also officially classified as a contact person. She was separated from the team in the Olympic village, but is allowed to continue training individually. Another member of the figure skating team is also considered a so-called close contact.
Overall, the number of German corona cases that were also confirmed by follow-up tests has now risen to four. A supervisor from the DOSB delegation had previously tested positive.
Series of new infections
Anyone who contracted the virus at the Beijing Olympics will be isolated in a specially designated hotel. Only after two negative PCR tests at least 24 hours apart can those affected leave before the end of ten days. After this period, only a negative PCR test is required.
In Nordic combined, the series of corona cases just before the opening does not stop. On Thursday, the positive test by top favorite Jarl Magnus Riiber from Norway, who was previously considered the contact person for Estonian podium candidate Kristjan Ilves, who was also infected, became public.
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Now the German Ski Association with record world champions Frenzel and Weber is also affected. The two are the best German combined athletes this season behind Vinzenz Geiger. The experienced Frenzel has been more consistent this winter than he has been in a long time. In addition, the 33-year-old flag bearer from 2018 is considered an expert for major events. At the last winter games in South Korea he won two gold and one bronze.
Weber won the World Cup in Ruka in November and is particularly strong on the ski jump. The first individual in Zhangjiakou will take place for the protégés of national coach Hermann Weinbuch next Wednesday.
